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Published online 25 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070723-8
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Mobile telephone masts 'do not cause illness'
Study finds no evidence of symptoms from electromagnetic waves.
There is no evidence that short-term exposure to signals from mobile telephone masts causes illness, say British researchers who have carried out a trial involving dozens of people who claim to be sensitive to the signals.
Participants in the study could not tell whether or not they were being exposed to an electromagnetic field.
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